Category: General
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Arctic sea ice at record low… affecting NA weather?
OK… I can’t keep it in anymore… the weather around here is just too boring… so, here’s a post of importance to fill the gap: February 2, 2011 Arctic Oscillation brings record low January extent, unusual mid-latitude weather Full analysis here. Arctic sea ice extent averaged over January 2011 was 13.55 million square kilometers. This…
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Happy Groundhog Day!
I’m hoping that we get a little bit of the white stuff tonight before we turn to straight rain tomorrow. For all you rodent watchers out there, the Groundhogs have NOT seen their shadow, so spring will be coming early. Personally, I think the giant blizzard that continues to move across the East Coast and…
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“Tule Fog” Capital of the World 🙂
Just heard something I’ve never heard before. The term “Tule Fog”. From what I can gather from this Accuweather report from California, Tule Fog (pronounced “Toolee” Fog) is the generic inversion layer type fog that we get here pretty much all winter. There is a beautiful Satellite image of the entirety of Central California covered…
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The Good News is:
It’s a lot foggier in “sunny” Parksville and Nanaimo right now with this weather pattern than it is in Port Alberni. Small consolations…. 😉 Not much change in the patter over the coming week…. Long Long forecast from Accuweather last week mentioned possibility of Storminess as the track starts pointing at us when we get…
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Careful driving today
There may be some snow on the roads today, especially places like Sutton Pass and the Hump as we have a weak system moving through that could give us some flurries. No large accumulations from what I can see and we should have a little rain tomorrow before it dries off on the weekend. The…